Tom Shadyac Quotes
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Authenticity means to be the author of your own life.
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I wasn't paying enough attention to what my heart was telling me. When I paid attention and got the message, I could move forward and heal.
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I believe in unity, as opposed to division.
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Nature is very clear on this. In fact, there's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks everyday. Now this is a law that's evolved over billions of years and the law is this: nothing in nature takes more than it needs. A redwood tree doesn't take all of the soil's nutrients, just what it needs to grow. A lion doesn't kill every gazelle, just one. We have a term for something in the body when it takes more than its share. We call it cancer.
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We're a young species; We're only 175,000 years old. On the evolutionary scale, life on this planet is 4 billion years old. We're 175,000 years old. So we're trying something out. Who wouldn't think it would be better to have the most stuff to take as much as you could? As we do that, we see why the moral prophets come along and say, don't even store into barns, right? It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. We've seen we plunder nature. We plunder our neighbor. We create enemies because we're against each other.
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I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph.
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When an individual changes in even a small way he immediately changes the world around him. And that concentric circle moves out and changes everything.
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I have not walked away from Hollywood. I'm walking away from the way I personally did business in Hollywood. The budget of whatever movie I do needs to be efficient; it needs to consider what kind of resources we're using and how to be as responsible as possible.
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Our own economy tells us to take as much as we can get, right? Our own economy says, you're going to be the most successful graduate if you go into the business world and take as much you can get. That's not how nature works. Nature has a much simpler economy. Everything in nature takes what it needs. That's it. You don't see an oak tree gathering up all the resources. An oak tree takes what it needs to be the authentic oak tree it is.
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Definition is the death of discovery.
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I come from a family of lawyers. I was expected to be a professional of some sort, not an artist. I was never uplifted for my art.
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The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; its love - that one principle.
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I am part of a divine essence. I don't have to become anything. I already am.
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We started by asking what’s wrong with the world, and we ended up discovering what’s right with it.
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Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.
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I think true success is intrinsic... It's love. It's kindness. It's community.
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If we exchange bombs for bread there will be less reason for wanting to kill us. I just want to have the conversation.
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Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.
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Fear represents our need to hang on to the riverbank, to control outcomes, results, our lives; it swims upstream. Truth is about releasing that hold, letting go of results, and trusting the direction of Life’s current.
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The word contentment comes from the word content, which is what we hold inside - love, value, a feeling of a life that has meaning or purpose, a cause greater than yourself that you're a part of. These are the things that bring true happiness. As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.
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In movies you can shoot a guy 3,000 times and get a 'PG-13', but if you say the 'F' word twice it's automatically an 'R'. I'll let that be its own comment.
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I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.
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As I "won," I didn't feel the fruits of that. I felt the fruits when I served others, when I gave myself away. . . . I've always seen my life as an experiment. I just want to go to what works. As I felt the charity aspect in my life, the giving aspect, I felt a power and I've walked more into that.
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You send a message in everything you do, Im always very conscious about what ideas and what energy I put out there.